Pennant Hills High School Hands On Technology 2020 Course Descriptions: GAIN VALUABLE “HANDS ON” PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TALK TO TEACHERS FROM ALL AROUND THE STATE UP-SKILL YOURSELF

Woodturning 101/refresher Presenter: Matthew Dwight Never turned wood before, haven't turned since school or uni or just want to improve your woodturning. This course will cover spindle turning and simple face plate turning so you can practice and safely introduce your students to woodturning. Topics covered include:

Safety

Tool shape and geometry

Sharpening

Spindle techniques, roughing down, planning cuts with the skew chisel, beads and coves with the detail gouge and skew chisel, cutting shoulders and pommels. Marking out and sizing.

Face plate turning, safety issues particular to faceplate turning, cutting and scraping techniques, safe use of face plates and chucks.

Students will complete a number of practice exercises and practical projects that will both improve their skills and be suitable to take back into the classroom to use to teach their students. Throughout the class there will be a focus on developing the techniques that students need to learn if they are to successfully demonstrate woodturning as part of their HSC major project to either produce furniture components or sculptural pieces. MEMBER COST: $500 Maximum 8 Participants

Keeping the Class Sharp. Sharpening woodwork and metalwork edge tools Presenter: Bob Crosbie

The course will cover sharpening of centre punches scribers, twist drills, tinsnips, chisels and plane blades, scrapers, marking knives, turning chisels/gouges.

MEMBER COST: $450 Maximum 18 Participants

River pour: Playing with Recycled Timber and More Presenter: Dave Giddings Have you always wanted to know the Tips & Tricks of doing River Pours? How to get rid of those pesky air bubbles in pour on finishes? Or how to achieve great finishes using recycled timber? What products and requirements can be used for internal and external conditions? This workshop will give you all the tips and tricks and correct products to do River Pours and more. By doing your own projects you will be loaded up with techniques for working with recycled and new timber for making unique woodwork projects. You will gain tips & tricks on how to take very ordinary pieces of timber from fence palings to slab timber and turn them into one off masterpieces. The plan is for you to bring manageable pieces of 2nd hand timber with you to play with over the two days. We will do the pouring / Epoxy coating on Saturday and finishing on Sunday. We will provide you with a list of goodies (Do not sweat if you do not have timber – we can supply) and tools you will need to bring once advised you have selected our knowledgeable workshop. MEMBER COST: $600 Maximum 14 Participants

Fusion 360 for Industrial Technology

Presenter: Peter Thompson Learn the correct fundamentals of Fusion 360 by learning 3 projects appropriate for Industrial Technology students. The focus will be Timber Technology. Learn to model, render and present graphics and to develop a 2D working drawing appropriate for the workshop. Including Workshop drawings of Assemblies with cutting lists. Learn to extrude simple shapes and about bodies, components and assemblies. Develop an understanding of appearances vs material properties. Project 1 is a dog – bite chopping board, an introductory timber skills exercise with appropriate student design input. Project 2 is a veneered serving tray, and end of year 9 product Project 3 will be a table appropriate to a final year 10 product or for year 11.

MEMBER COST: $350 Maximum 20 Participants

Drone Division Presenter: Vaughn Littlejohns

Drones are fast becoming a staple in many industries due to their functional flexibility and cost effectiveness, and with new legislation emphasising safety precautions, drones have great aptitude for educating future innovators on technical modernisation, digital literacy, and ethical considerations. During this course teachers will engage in programming drones to fly various missions. Teachers will gain access to a fully resourced and developed program and that addresses digital literacies component of the Technology

Mandatory Syllabus.

Equipment Required: Participants must bring a laptop with internet access and google chrome installed. Drone included for participants to take back to school MEMBER COST: $600 Maximum 22 Participants

eTextiles: A Way into STEM. Presenter: Ruth Thompson This is an integrative STEM course, during which teachers will be introduced to the basic concepts of electronics and how to apply them to textile based design projects. The course will include an introduction to electronics theory, identification of simple components, developing circuits using ICTs and applying that knowledge to simple skill development projects. Participants will engage in discussion regarding problem based learning, its application in the classroom and how to develop appropriate assessment methodologies. This workshop is a basic introduction to the fun world of e-Textiles. The workshop will include a kit of components that contains enough components to enable further experimentation after the course. This course is designed to help the absolute beginner get going with e-Textiles. MEMBER COST: $400 Maximum 22 Participants

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Software Design and Development

Presenter: Fernando Pinget All four sessions cover the whole Software Design and Development Unit of Work titled “The Interrelationship between Software and Hardware – Option2”. All topics from the Syllabus are included. Session 1

Numbering Systems, including Sign and Modulus, Binary and Hexadecimal and conversion, Complement 1, Complement 2, Excess 127 and Excess 1023, IEEE754.

Arithmetic binary operations: including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using Complement 1 and Complement 2.

HSC Examination questions. Session 2

Boolean algebra, De Morgan Theorem, rules of simplification.

Logic Gates, designing solutions using logic gates, testing circuits using Truth Tables

HSC Examination questions. Session 3

Speciality Circuits: Flip-Flops and Truth Tables

R-S Flip Flop, J-K Flip Flop and D-Flip Flop. Their Truth Tables, applications and relevance of each.

Half Adder and Full Adder: how to design them from a Truth Table using Logic Gates.

Shift registers using D-Flip Flops. Use of shift-registers in binary multiplication and binary division.

HSC Examination questions.

Session 4

Programming Hardware Devises (theory and practice as per SDD Syllabus).

The data stream: format (header information, data block, and trailer information).

Use of control characters (printer example and mouse)

Processing an input data stream from sensors and devices; generating output to a device; issues with interpreting data streams.

HSC Examination questions.

Sunday Session 1

The whole session cover Arrays, a topic that many students find it challenging.

Finding the minimum and maximum of a single dimensional Array, of a two dimensional Array and a 3 D- Array.

HSC Examination questions. Session 2

Context Diagrams

Data Flow Diagrams

Structure Charts

HSC Examination questions.

MEMBER COST: $400 Maximum 20 Participants

IoT (Internet of Things) Introduction (STEM) Presenter: Tim Scott In this workshop you will be using an IoT device (e.g. a NodeMCU, EPS32) and a variety of sensors and output transducers. The workshop will include electronics, coding, problem-solving, building (soldering). You will learn to:

monitor and control the IoT device, using the internet;

investigate, collect, then display the collected data; and

use a variety of online IoT platforms and assess what they have to offer. On completion of the workshop, you could design a unit of work for Stage 4 (e.g. garden monitor, remote controlled garden system, weather station), a Stage 5 unit of work (Electronics, Applied Electronics) and better support Stage 6 students who might want to investigate using the IoT as part of their Major Design Project. Note: These IoT devices are programmed using the same software and language as Arduino boards. MEMBER COST: $500 Maximum 20 Participants